FI:IA046 Computability - Course Information

IA046 Computability

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

prof. RNDr. Luboš Brim, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. RNDr. Mojmír Křetínský, CSc.
Department of Computer Science – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Luboš Brim, CSc.

Timetable

Thu 14:00–15:50 B411

Prerequisites

Prerequisities: IB107 Computability and Complexity,MA006 Set Theory

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Applied Informatics (programme FI, N-AP)
• Information Technology Security (programme FI, N-IN)
• Bioinformatics (programme FI, N-AP)
• Information Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
• Informatics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Parallel and Distributed Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Graphics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Networks and Communication (programme FI, N-IN)
• Computer Systems (programme FI, N-IN)
• Embedded Systems (eng.) (programme FI, N-IN)
• Theoretical Informatics (programme FI, N-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-TV)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, N-SS) (2)
• Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (programme FI, N-IN)
• Image Processing (programme FI, N-AP)

Course objectives

The course is focused on deeper understanding of results in the computability theory with emphasis on methods and techniques used to prove such results.

Syllabus

• Recursion theorem, generalized Rice theorem, Rogers isomorphism theorem.
• Application to logic. Arithmetical sets and functions, Goedel-Rosser incompleteness theorem. Goedel's second incompleteness theorem.
• Relativized computability. Programs with oracles.
• Kleene hierarchy, Turing reducibility, tt-reducibility, arithmetical hierarchy.
• Post's problem.
• Analytical hierarchy.
• Computability on real numbers, complete partial orders, domains.

Literature

• Theory of Recursive Functions and Effective Computability. Edited by Hartley Rogers. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987, 482 s. ISBN 0262680521. info

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Zkouška je písemná a ústní. V případě zadání průběžných testů během semestru, mají tyto podíl nejvýše 30% na závěrečném hodnocení. Pomocné materiály nejsou povoleny.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course is taught once in two years.

Teacher's information

http://www.fi.muni.cz/usr/brim/IA046

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